The Anagram Hall of Fame
Internet Anagram Server = I, rearrangement servant = Isn’t rearrangement rave?
Dormitory = Dirty Room
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
(BTW, this anagram has 13 letters!)
Dictionary = Indicatory
Schoolmaster = The classroom
Hatred = Red hat
Elvis = Lives
Listen = Silent
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
Conversationalists = Conservationalists
(the longest one-word anagram in English – 18 letters)
London Tube map, anagrammed by Barry Heck
Madam Curie = Radium came
A telephone girl = Repeating “Hello”
Western Union = No Wire Unsent
The countryside = No city dust here
Evangelist = Evil’s Agent
Astronomers = Moon starers = No more stars
Postmaster = Stamp Store
A telescope = To see place
The eyes = They see
The ears = Hear set
The cockroach = Cook, catch her
Waitress = A stew, Sir?
The centenarians = I can hear ten “tens”
Desperation = A rope ends it
I run to escape ~ a persecution
The Morse code = Here come dots
The meaning of life = The fine game of nil
Slot Machines = Cash lost in ’em
Conversation = Voices rant on
Disraeli = I lead, Sir
Clothespins = So let’s pinch
Mr. Mojo risin’ = Jim Morrison
From the Doors song, “L.A. Woman”
The Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel = Giant work in street, partly underneath
Florence Nightingale = Flit on Cheering Angel = Nigel, Fetch an Iron Leg
MacDonalds = Clam and sod
Darling I love you = Leaving your idol = Avoiding our yell
Butterfly = Flutter-by
Heavy Rain? = Hire a navy!
Tom Cruise = So I’m cuter
Animosity = Is no amity
Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
Father-in-law = Near halfwit
Funeral = Real fun
Protectionism = Cite no imports = Nice to imports
A domesticated animal = Docile, as a man tamed it
The railroad train = Hi! I rattle and roar
The Hilton = Hint: Hotel
A rolling stone gathers no moss = Stroller on go, amasses nothing
Sunshine and Shadow = Show in sun and shade
The check is in the mail = Claim “Heck, I sent it (heh)”
The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I raise the bass to feed us in the future
Snooze alarms = Alas! No more Zs
Vacation times = I’m not as active
Mike Gillis
Software = Swear oft
Metathesis = It’s the same
Fred Domino
Sycophant = Acts phony
Stephen Jones
Silicon Graphics = A long chip crisis = Can logic ship, sir? = Gosh, sir, I can clip!
Alec Guinness = Genuine class
Dick Cavett
The detectives = Detect thieves
The hospital ambulance = A cab, I hustle to help man
Semolina = Is no meal
The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom
Christmas tree = Search, Set, Trim
A gentleman = Elegant man
Presbyterians = Best in prayers = Britney Spears
The public art galleries = Large picture halls, I bet
A decimal point = I’m a dot in place
The earthquakes = That queer shake
Salman Rushdie = Read, shun Islam
Martin Scorsese = Screen is a storm
Barbie doll = I’ll bare bod = Babe I’d roll = Liberal bod
Student Information Processing Board = Computation transgression forbidden
MIT
Statue of Liberty = Built to stay free
Mel Gibson = Bong smile
Admirer = Married
Indomitableness = Endless ambition
New York Times = Monkeys write = Monkey writes
Andrew Glines
Television programming = Permeating living rooms
Dan
David Letterman = Nerd amid late TV
Howard Stern = Retard shown
Contradiction = Accord not in it
E. Tyron
Debit card = Bad credit
Mike Morton
Naturalist = A trails nut
Internet routers = Reorient net ruts
Kevin Dorner
Church of Scientology = Rich-chosen goofy cult
Kevin Dorner
Movie summaries:
The Maltese Falcon = Sam, locate left hen
The Shining = Highest inn
It’s a Wonderful Life = Wife, I lost real fund
The Shawshank Redemption = Tim taken, showed harsh pen
Kevin Dorner
Mummy = My Mum
Chris Dean
God save us all = Salvaged soul
Dawn Amos
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz
Pangram
“Be Like Water” = We break tile
Ozan Sarikaya (a well-known quotation attributed to martial-arts expert Bruce Lee)
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the universe. = A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.
Cory Calhoun (Quotation by Kurt Vonnegut)
There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about = Wilde died broken, beaten ‘n’ total nut. Hate being sunk in that rotten gaol. Shh, gay is taboo.
Larry Brash (Quotation by Oscar Wilde)
To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune = In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
Cory Calhoun (Quotation from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare = Willie makes a phrase
Donald Griffith
US Presidents
Tuesday, November Third = Many Voted, Bush Retired
The election of Clinton over incumbent Bush Sr.
Why shouldn’t America go re-elect President Clinton in Ninety-Six? = He has a prime or cunning tendency to wildly solicit Internet sex
Cory Calhoun
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton, former President of these United States of America = Monica flirts. Wife sees hot jism from cad land on fat intern, set to rule free empire
Joe Kline
Spiro Agnew = Grow a spine = Grow a penis
William Clinton = I’m it, an ill clown
William Jefferson Clinton = Firm clean fellow. Joint? Sin!
William Schmidt
William Jefferson Clinton = Jail Mrs. Clinton: felon wife
Ward Hardman
George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge berserk rebel warthog
George Bush = He bugs Gore
Ronald Wilson Reagan = No, darlings, no ERA law
Mike Morton [ERA: Equal Rights Amendment]
Ronald Reagan = A darn long era
Thomas Jefferson = O, short name’s Jeff
Dennis R. Ridley
Long Works of Anagramming:
Anthem For Doomed Youth
by Wilfred Owen
| Anthem For Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. | = | Hymn: The Fight for Martyrdom What pealing tolls for those condemned as bulls? Is most hellishly angry gunshot. Resonating trench gunfire’s deathly prattle Detonates non-melodious laments. Why no hopes go forth, no lilting orisons? Pay no vocal remorse bar these, the choristers, Their mad trilled echoes of howlin’ salvoes; Trumpets blow in distress on far-off hillocks. What tapers can be held to hasten all the slain? Held not by brash youths, but in these orbits How flicker shimmering god images of adieus. Her pale forehead’ll be terror’s able friend; Why, floral softness seen as patience, Night, where mild days, wound down, end. |
Jason Lofts
Cool Hand Luke Anagram
“Captain, Road Prison: What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it.”
=
We see America’s anti-hero flip it — where? At The Man! Tut! Luke vows not getting it — rams his way. Cool Hand split — wee gutsy hare! Ram out! Wow! Cheetah cojones! Why, he aces with a deuce!
Dennis R. Ridley
The top twelve all-time absolute worst people in history, ranked by the wisdom of the crowd
| The top twelve all-time absolute worst people in history, ranked by the wisdom of the crowd 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Joseph Stalin 3. Pol Pot 4. Idi Amin 5. Osama bin Laden 6. Heinrich Himmler 7. Josef Mengele 8. Kim Chong-il 9. Joseph Goebbels 10. Benito Mussolini 11. Saddam Hussein 12. Mao Zedong | = | 1. Oh! ill Nazi bellowed. Now in Hell. 2. Soviet Dictator. 3. I see “Khmer Ogre”. 4. Non-white Cannibal. 5. Some SEALs got him. 6. Jumped-up ill Gestapo top. 7. “Angel of Death”. 8. North Korea’s “His Majesty”. 9. Wimp poisoned himself. 10. Him: Fascism’s Belly-button 11. “The Rope” ended him! 12. “Jism Baboon” – Red Idol. |
Maurice Goddard
The Curse of the Ring (from The Lord of the Rings)
| In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie, One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, And in the darkness, bind them. | = | Who fears Nine Morgul men, A lot of bandit demons, The gathering torrent, And Him, one Dark Lord Sheltered within His hell? Men, blind to the One Ring. |
Michael J. Mateyka
Inscription (from The Lord of the Rings)
Ennyn Durin Aran Moria. Pedo mellon a minno. Im Narvi hain echant. Celebrimbor o Eregion teithant i thiw hin. = I’m main entrance into Dwarven hall. I’m iron; no enemy, human or hobbit, can enter. Thing in pool, I hear in air. Die. = Hi, human idiot. I am main entrance into Dwarven hall. I’m iron; no enemy can enter, nor bribe. I hear thing in pool.
Doug Yanega
Washington Crossing the Delaware
A hard, howling, tossing water scene.
Strong tide was washing hero clean.
“How cold!” Weather stings as in anger.
O Silent night shows war ace danger!
The cold waters swashing on in rage.
Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.
When star general’s action wish’d “Go!”
He saw his ragged continentals row.
Ah, he stands – sailor crew went going.
And so this general watches rowing.
He hastens – winter again grows cold.
A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.
George can’t lose war with’s hands in;
He’s astern – so go alight, crew, and win!
David Shulman (Every line of this sonnet is an anagram of its title)
| The Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare Let not the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. | = | Oh Damn! Must I Refrigerate? by Leslie Marie Kapshaw I, altogether a formed instrument, Despite slim motivation, mend love In what we’d call a fitter Shinto shrine; Where vermin rot, betroth some dove. A fork (an extreme division Soon eventless in the dark paths) makes not That street biker advisory warning So. I laugh when he knows what the non-bikers thought. |
Cory Calhoun
More:
- Information Superhighway by Mike Morton
- Chronological story of OJ Simpson
- A short story by Daniel Cohen
Leroy Newton Gingrich =
Yon Right-winger Clone
Lingering, once worthy
I negligent, horny, crow
Grow incoherent, lying
Movie Reviews
Hook = Oh, OK
Raiders of the Lost Ark = Ford, the Real Star, is OK
The Towering Inferno = Not Worth Fire Engine
GAMES Magazine
Prince of Tides = PS. I cried often
The Silence of the Lambs = The con bites male flesh
Philip Silverman
Gentleman’s Agreement = Men entangle, stem rage
Taysir Jabr
Motion picture ‘From Russia with love’= True mush of virile patriot in Moscow
Pinchas Aronas
Coming To America = A cinematic groom
Leo Mackillop (Eddie Murphy film about him finding a bride)
Tony Blair, MP = I’m Tory plan B
Virginia Bottomley = I’m an evil Tory bigot
Margaret Thatcher = A charm tart, get her!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea = Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense.
E.L. Benfer
The end of the world is nigh! = Down this hole, frightened!
Donald L. Holmes
The best things in life are free = Nail-biting refreshes the feet
Donald L. Holmes
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil A. Armstrong = A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
Steve Krakowski
Do an angry hit = Tonya Harding
Tim DeLaney
Grace ‘n any rink = Nancy Kerrigan
Tim DeLaney
Vegetarianism = Grains vie meat
Nirmal Raj
Pre-natal = Parental = Paternal
Name is Anu Garg = Anagram Genius
Eric Shackle
Anu Garg = Anurag G.
Harshal Madhavapeddi (Anu is a shortened version of the name Anurag)
The anagrammatist group = As I’m Mr. Anu Garg at the top!
Adie Pena
Get numerous anagrams = Or, Anu Garg’s amusement
Anu’s bag is a rareness of magical grammar = Garg’s business: miracle of anagram-arama
‘The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace’ = Hey, come by! Meet all-time wildest spiced anagram finder’s coupe in Cosmos!
Dennis R. Ridley
www.wordsmith.org/anagram = Grammar was downright wow!
John Crowe
Anu Garg’s “The Anagram Times” = Sharing a ragtag amusement
Dharam Khalsa
Anu Garg’s “The Anagram Times” = He emits as “gargantuan” ‘gram = See, a “gargantuan ‘gramsmith”!
Jason Lofts
Anagrams Never Lie… = Reveals a renaming
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